March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... filling the Solar System with vibrant life. Europa, Mars, the asteroid colonies - but also, interstellar. As Elon Musk recommends, let’s put our eggs in many baskets. Still, like me, you’d probably hanker to do something to help the...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... will print a satellite. It’s real. We’re flying it on satellites now.” SpaceX is also significantly involved in AM. According to Elon Musk, chief designer and CEO: “SpaceX is pushing the boundaries of what Additive Manufacturing can do in the 21st...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... ‘landing’ of the SpaceX Falcon 9 on 21 December 2015, a remarkable feat to say the least. Newspapers credit the success to Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. This is the event that took place but what do I see, as a philosopher of science? The first...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...-dramatic headlines such as, ‘Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind’ (BBC News, December 2014) or ‘Elon Musk’s billion-dollar crusade to stop the AI apocalypse’ (Vanity Fair, April 2017). Could it be that we have clumsily...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
.... Exploration architectures have been proposed with refuelling for missions to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has proposed such an architecture for his Mars colonisation plan. The leading space faring nations of the...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... be needed to make the system work. However, researchers believe the Sabatier system has a good chance of working. Elon Musk is banking on local fuel supply manufacture on Mars to allow for the refuelling of its BFR Mars spacecraft and...
